Etymologies

Examples

I'm so proud of ye when I think of the grand secret it's keepin 'for ye I am; and less and less are gettin' me chances for the salvation of me soul, for every night I'm a-sittin 'starin' at the magazines ye gave me when I ought to be tellin 'me beads and makin' me devotions.

He couldn't help, in spite av himself, lookin 'now an' thin at the picthur, an 'he immediately obsarved that the eyes av it was follyin' him about, an 'starin' at him, an 'winkin' at him, wheriver he wint.

'I see him once a-sittin' on a door-step, lookin 'straight afore him, and worn-out like, an' a lot o 'them childer standin' all about him, an 'starin' at him as mum as mice, for fear of disturbin 'of him.